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...soldiers are targeted by enemy Scuds during the conflict, martial lightning bolts--actually oxygen-iodine lasers--will blow the missiles from the sky before they ever get close to their targets. The Air Force wants to outfit a fleet of 747s with lasers. These "Warbirds" could explode enemy missiles shortly after launch, well before they could unleash their batches of warheads on American soldiers or local civilians. Computers on the plane will bend the laser's "rubber mirror" hundreds of times a second to keep the beam fixed on the missile's skin for the three to five seconds needed...
...spread and moms from around the country called in, Dees-Thomases used her talent for generating publicity--she once worked as a press aide to a U.S. Senator and later as a publicist for Dan Rather and David Letterman--to gather corporate sponsors such as Viacom, Stride Rite and Oxygen Media to cover the $2.3 million budget for the march. The Bell Campaign, a gun-control group funded by heirs to the Levi's blue-jean fortune, is picking up any shortfall. Dees-Thomases now has a small paid staff and a battalion of volunteers who answer 75 phones...
...NECAR4 doesn't burn hydrogen. Instead, it uses an onboard fuel cell, developed by Ballard, to let hydrogen combine slowly with oxygen at moderate temperatures. What comes out is plain H2O and electricity...
...ocean. (Midway's albatrosses have in their tissues as much of the industrial chemicals called PCBs as do Great Lakes bald eagles.) The biggest sources of coastal pollution are waste from farm animals, fertilizers and human sewage. They can spawn red tides and other harmful algal blooms that rob oxygen from the water, killing sea life. The Mississippi River, whose fine heartland silt once built fertile delta wetlands, now builds in the Gulf of Mexico a spreading dead zone--almost devoid of marine life--the size of New Jersey. Improving sewage treatment and cleaning up the runoff from farms will...
...parents kiss two weeks ago, my father in his hospital bed, my mother leaning over him to adjust the tubes carrying oxygen to his mouth. In late January, he had an accident at work. He slipped, fell from a loading dock that was three feet off the ground and hit his head. The impact of the fall left my 62-year-old father in a three-week-long coma. One craniotomy, four blood transfusions and several minor operations later, he is slowly beginning to regain consciousness. On good days, he can whisper his name, squeeze his therapist's hand...